TIGER TIDBIT: JANET BENSON

If Mrs. Janet Benson had any idea about Arkadelphia before moving to the city, it was this: “You came to Arkadelphia to get an education.” After her husband, Coach Buddy Benson, signed on at Ouachita as an assistant football coach in 1961, Mrs. Benson enrolled at the university. She graduated in 1964 with an education degree, becoming a junior high science teacher in the Arkadelphia Public School District. By the time of her retirement in 1998, Mrs. Benson had added a master’s degree and shifted from science to history, teaching K-12 and collegiate courses at Arkadelphia, Henderson State University and…